Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Popewas an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1688
pants glory repose
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
past errors needs
Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.
passion differences giving
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.
dog husband loss
No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.
education wisdom stupid-people
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
blood hands cooking
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
love absence saying-good-bye
Is not absence death to those who love?
love sunshine mind
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
father dark men
Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.
writing men names
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
literature praise satire
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
athlete delight pursuit
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
eye men glasses
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
envy merit shade
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue